N
OCTOBER 19, 2011
O R T H
C
C
A R O L I N A
E N T R A L
UN
I V E R S I T Y
919 530 7116/CAMPUSECHO@NCCU.EDU
1801 FAYETTEVILLE STREET DURHAM, NC 27707
Campus . . . . . . . . . .
1-4 4
Beyond . . . . . . . . . .
5
Feature . . . . . . . . .
6-7 7
A&E . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8-9 9
Sports . . . . . . . . . . .
10
Opinion . . . . . . . . . .
11-1 12
VOLUME 103, ISSUE 4
Photo Feature
Beyond
A&E
Sports
9th annual Adrian Carroll HBCU/High school Battle of the Bands blaze O’KellyRiddick stadium.
Former presidential candidate says college sports are dumbing down society as a whole.
Echo examines the imagery and aesthetics of the Occupy movement.
Ouch! It was 52-3. Eagles match their all time worst defeat.
Page 5
Page 9
Page 10
Page 6-7
Campus Echo
MLK NATIONAL MEMORIAL DEDICATED
“I have a dream,” he cried again and again. And each time the dream was a promise out of our ancient articles of faith: phrases from the Constitution ... guarantees from the Bill of Rights. He was full of the cadences of the Bible. He was both militant and sad, and he sent the crowd away feeling that the long journey had been worthwhile. JAMES RESTON ~ NEW YORK TIMES, AUG. 28, 1963
Tough cuts ahead Title III funding under threat BY AARON SAUNDERS ECHO EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
the King memorial, which cost $120 million and
N.C. Central University and other minority institutions are in danger of losing millions of dollars next year if the Republican-led House appropriations committee has its way in the 2012 fiscal year. If passed the cuts would terminate U.S. Education Department programs for tribal colleges and significantly reduce funds for HBCUs, especially Title III funds. If the plan passes, the Strengthening HBCUs program funding would be cut from $236 million to $152 million in the 2012 fiscal year, according to Diverse Education magazine. The House GOP plan would also eliminate a $9.6 million program for HBCUs, a $26 million tribal college program, a $13 million aid program for Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, a $ 3.2 million program for colleges with significant enrollments of Asian American/Pacific Islander students, and a $3.2 million initiative for nontribal institutions with significant Native American enrollments. “In these harsh econom-
n See MLK Page 5
n See TITLE III Page 2
People take pictures during the dedication ceremony of the Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall, Sunday, in Washington, D.C
P
PHOTO
BY
OLIVIER DOULIERY/Abaca Press (MCT) ~ STORY
BY
DANIEL LIPPMAN/McClatchy Newspapers
resident Barack Obama and civil rights leaders on Sunday helped dedicate a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with thousands of spectators watching, almost two months after it was originally scheduled to be dedicated. Obama, the nation's first black president, who benefited enormously from the victories won by the civil rights movement, called King a man who “somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man
who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect." The centerpiece of the
national memorial, the first on the National Mall honoring a non-president and an African-American, is a 30-
foot-high, 12-foot-wide granite sculpture of King with his arms crossed. Nearby, a white granite
wall displays 14 quotations from King's speeches and writings. Facing the Tidal Basin,
Global trend reaches South Over 100 people gathered for Occupy Durham at the CCB plaza
BY MATT PHILLIPS ECHO A&E EDITOR
The revolution will be improvised. Sunday, nearly one hundred “Occupy Durham” protestors gathered at CCB Plaza downtown. The demonstration was held in solidarity with “Occupy Wall Street.” Tuesday afternoon, the protestors complied with the city’s orders to remove their tents from the plaza, although on Sunday they said they would remain in place for the foreseeable future. “We are here to establish a new era of constructive participation,” said a community organizer from the unified communities working group. “We are here for each other,” he said. “We sent a clarion call to all in our communities that now is the time. “In the spirit of genuine democracy, we will defer decision-making to no hierarchy or any establishment of leadership, but will build upon the consent of this assembly.” “Occupy Wall Street” — now a global movement — started with a brief statement in the Canadian-based Adbusters magazine, “See you on Wall Street. Sept. 17.
A 99 percenter gets her message out in Durham’s CCB Plaza Sunday. MATTHEW PHILLIPS/Echo A&E editor
Bring Tent.” Adbusters is an anti-consumerist publication with a large readership in North America. Since then protestors describing themselves as the 99 percent have flooded into New York City’s Zuccotti Park as well as other major
cities. The 99 percent label is a reference to the holding of the majority of the world’s wealth by 1 percent of the population. “Occupy Durham” protestors had various reasons for assembling. Some cited cor-
porate greed; others were disenfranchised by the monetary influence of the election process. Chapel Hill resident Alissa Ellis voiced opposition to the local election influence of Republican Art Pope. “He [Pope] has co-opted a process that is sacred, people should have access to participate. One individual should not be able to fill the legislature. He owns our representation,” said Ellis. As previously reported by Campus Echo, Pope is head of the Pope Foundation, a financial backer of the rescinded proposal to form a Constitutional Law Center at NCCU. Students from local universities were also in attendance. “I’ve been following ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and am really intrigued by how it has spread. It’s cool people are coming together,” said N.C. Central University graduate student Princess Ojiaku. She said she has concerns about government policy involving scientific advancement, “There are intersections of science and policy. As technology advances there are more conflicts.” Ojiaku is tentatively planning to pursue a doctorate
n See OCCUPY Page 2
Life lessons
Cancer does not stop NCCU prof
Rebecca Soper teaching speech communication in the Farrison-N Newton Communication Building. ISH HINSON /Echo photo editor
BY MYAVA MITCHELL ECHO STAFF REPORTER
She looks healthy. She looks happy. She’s energetic. She is attentive to her students’ needs. You wouldn’t know it, but she’s battling breast and bone cancer. Rebecca Soper, an instructor in the Department of English and Mass Communication, says she doesn’t want people to feel sorry for her. She said she sees her cancer as something that’s teaching her a lesson about life.
She said she is the type of person who wakes up every morning saying, “This is going to be a good day.” Soper said she’s known about her breast cancer for three years. Her first surgery, a mastectomy, was in October 12, 2008. Bone cancer showed up in May 2010. Since then, her weakened immune system and complications from chemotherapy treatments have led to multiple staph infections and diabetes.
n See SOPER Page 2